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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: May 2006
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Video Game Industry Cartel Conspiring to Harm Jack Thompson
[MontyPython]
And now for something completely different: A man unhealthily obsessed about something other than 9/11 [/MontyPython]
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Master Poster
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Jack Thompson...
Glad he is getting the boot. He even dared try to cater to the anti-war crowd by saying video game industry was run by the military to recruit kids. |
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MarkyX's Haunted Bloghouse - Read my boredom |
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Master Poster
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Valley Lodge, USA
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Jack, meet whirlwind.
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Muse
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 780
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Jack Thompson is a modern tragedy. A man brought down by his own ego and thirst for power. I shed not a tear for him.
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My Blog: http://andrews-views.blogspot.com/ JihadJane actually thinks its okay for truthers to call for the murder of people they disagree with. 911-Investigator believes that Jews should have no rights of any kind, even those dictated by the Constitution. |
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Des Moines, IA
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We were going to jump over three times our own height and land right on his head, but then we realized we were too out-of-shape to pull it off.
We're now trying to break bricks, hoping to get a star so we can just run into him. |
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Sometimes going by "Nyke" | "Pascal's Wager: Believe in Unicorns, or one might kick you in the nads!" | "There is no hope for humanity. Reason is dead and we dance on the corpse. Tra la la la la!" --c4ts | Intelligent Design & Expelled Exposed | I'm on dial-up. If you want to reply to me, summarize please. |
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Critical Thinker
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 460
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Again, which NWO agent is selling secrets to the ouside world?
And if letting outsiders know our secrets isn't enough....
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Nasty Brutish and Tall
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Knob Hill.
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Words cannot convey the vertiginous retching horror that enveloped me as I lost consciousness. - W. S. Burroughs Invert the prominent diaphragm!!! |
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Critical Doofus
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 9,434
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2 Live Crew = residents of Liberty City projects in Miami.
Grand Theft Auto IV = Set in fictional "Liberty City." Took a decade or two, but the chickens finally came home to roost.
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"You post a lie, it is proven 100% false, you move the goalposts and post yet another lie and it continues on around till we're back to the original lie as if it will somehow become true if it's re-iterated again. The same misquotes over and over again. The same hindsight bias, appeals to authority, etc." -lapman describing every twoofer on the internet |
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Just One More Question
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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I've been involved in a lot of cults, both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower, but you make more money as a leader.--Creed, "The Office" The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be only found in the minds of men. Prejudices and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own.--Rod Serling |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 22,848
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What weapon will the Video Game industry use to off Thompson?
The BFG ("Big F-----g Gun") from "Doom"? The Shrink Ray Gun from Duke Nukem 3d? Talk about paranoia/ Jack Thompson is Mrs. Grundy squared. |
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grumpy old skeptic
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Deep in the rain
Posts: 18,520
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Maybe we can introduce him to the 'BADD' people, the ones who were running around badmouthing D&D, and introducing a 'questionaire' that showed that they didn't have a hint of a guess of a small clue how an FRP game worked.
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Anti-homeopathy illuminati member
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: UK
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Tobikan Judan
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Muse
Join Date: Nov 2007
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My Blog: http://andrews-views.blogspot.com/ JihadJane actually thinks its okay for truthers to call for the murder of people they disagree with. 911-Investigator believes that Jews should have no rights of any kind, even those dictated by the Constitution. |
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Muse
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Goddess of Legaltainment™
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Anti-homeopathy illuminati member
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Location: UK
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Creativity Murderer
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Graham, WA
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Jack Thompson is just odd.
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Master Poster
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: St.Helens, UK
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Misanthrope of the Mountains
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Tuolumne City, CA
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The man is a loon3. He compares video games to polio, introduced gay pornography into his own trial (who knows why?) and said the unbanning of Manhunt 2 in the UK was like molesting children.
Nobody should be listening to this nut. |
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"Because WE ARE IGNORANT OF 911 FACTS, WE DEMAND PROOF" -- Douglas Herman on Rense.com
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 22,848
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For those who are unfamiliar with Jack Thompson:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Th...%28attorney%29 I think the terms "Crackpot", "Fanatic" and that wonderful Aussie term "Sticky Beaker"(someone who always sticks his nose in other people's business) can be applied to Thompson. I also bet he is the kind of lawyer who, when he walks up to a courthouse, every judge who sees him says "God, I hope he is not on my docket". |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Expert Expertologist
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Florida
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For an interesting insight into Jack's mind, I submit the following email exchange he initiated with the creator of the VG Cats comic:
http://vgcats.com/jack.php |
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Pixelated Reality | Alareth Does Art! Light travels faster than sound, which is why some people appear bright, until you hear them speak |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: 16 miles from 7 lakes
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Kind of a more radical Tipper Gore?
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"Political correctness is a doctrine,...,which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end." "I pointed out that his argument was wrong in every particular, but he rightfully took me to task for attacking only the weak points." Myriad http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?postid=6853275#post6853275 |
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Critical Doofus
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 9,434
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Yeah, with much more of a racial overtone to it. The day after 2 Live Crew got arrested in Broward, a (GREAT) alternative band called Too Much Joy played the same club and performed the entire Luke Skyywalker set list and not a thing happened to them.
FREE LUTHER!! Oh wait, he's been free for 19 years now.
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"You post a lie, it is proven 100% false, you move the goalposts and post yet another lie and it continues on around till we're back to the original lie as if it will somehow become true if it's re-iterated again. The same misquotes over and over again. The same hindsight bias, appeals to authority, etc." -lapman describing every twoofer on the internet |
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Expert Expertologist
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Florida
Posts: 6,688
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And in breaking news, Jack is possibly facing lifetime disbarment:
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/07/...l-referee-says |
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Pixelated Reality | Alareth Does Art! Light travels faster than sound, which is why some people appear bright, until you hear them speak |
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Scholar
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 85
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I love how he considers himself an expert, and yet, blamed videogames for the VT shooting before the identity of the suspect was even announced to the public. I sware he has Fox and MSNBC on speed dial by now. Almost as much of a tradgedy whore as Alex Jones. Well, almost.
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Creativity Murderer
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Graham, WA
Posts: 6,868
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I'm an expert too! On watching people self destruct!
..anyone want popcorn? |
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Expert Expertologist
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Florida
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If you have the patience to read the 169 page referees report attached to that link, you will see examples of some truly unforgivable behavior by Jack. Not all of it is related to his video game shenanigans.
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Pixelated Reality | Alareth Does Art! Light travels faster than sound, which is why some people appear bright, until you hear them speak |
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Creativity Murderer
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Graham, WA
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Alareth: I decided Jack Thompson was too much. I have some standard to my insanity, you know.
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Decoy
Moderator
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: A magical land full of pink fluffy sheeps and bunnies
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 22,848
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When A state Bar Association, who are notoriously forgiving toward bad behavior by members of the Bar, recommends that someone be permamnently disbarred, you know things are really, really, bad.
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Atheist Political Candidate
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: DFW, TX area
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Looks like his career of nuissance is at its final end.
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/09/25/disbarred |
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"This is one of things that I find so dangerous about religion. It actually allows people who are perfectly healthy psychologically, and quite intelligent even, to believe things that only a lunatic or an idiot could believe on his own." - Sam Harris in an internet radio interview with www.rationalresponders.com Hurst Photography |
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Misanthrope of the Mountains
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Tuolumne City, CA
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Considering his in court antics I'm not surprised.
I sure am glad he got his comeuppance. |
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"Because WE ARE IGNORANT OF 911 FACTS, WE DEMAND PROOF" -- Douglas Herman on Rense.com
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Critical Doofus
Join Date: Feb 2006
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"You post a lie, it is proven 100% false, you move the goalposts and post yet another lie and it continues on around till we're back to the original lie as if it will somehow become true if it's re-iterated again. The same misquotes over and over again. The same hindsight bias, appeals to authority, etc." -lapman describing every twoofer on the internet |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 22,848
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If he would have halfway followed the standard rules of legal behavior, Thompson would not have been disbarrred. It was not his kooky stand on video games that got him disbarred... The Bar association, quite rightly, did not think the merits of his cause were the issue here....but his being a total stupid jerk about it.
Thompson can still file lawsuits though, like any citizen can. And he can also play the poor persecuted Matyr now, which is the only downside to this. Now will the Gaming Industry cancel the Contracts it had out on Thompson? Gee, I would have seen him shrunk down to a few inches by the Duke Nukem Shrink ray weapon, then stomped by the Duke's mighty foot.... |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: the downunderverse
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Wow. I knew he had a bee in his bonnet about videogames, but I didn't realise how out there he was.
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Master Poster
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Valley Lodge, USA
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